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Are you having trouble setting career goals? In searching for the right career, there are so many options and decisions. Hollandcodes.com has the tools that will help you to make the right career decisions.

Overview

There are three steps in career planning cycle that will help you achieve your career goals and search for a career.

Step One: Get a Clear Career Goal

The first step in search for a job is setting a career goal.

In order to set a career goal, you have to take inventory of yourself to determine what you can offer an employer.

In order to identify potential careers, you may use career exploration and
social media resources to gather the following occupational information –

Labor market

Work industries

Companies, organizations, or agencies

Specific careers

Use online career exploration resources to identify potential careers.

Step Three: Overcome Career Roadblocks

When you are trying to reach a career goal, there will always be
obstacles. You solve career problems by completing the following steps –

Identify educational and career planning obstacles

Create solutions or courses of action

Set achievable goals

Resolve conflicts

Commit to reach our goals

Problem solving should take into consideration personal interests, skills, values, and financial resources. Big problems are broken down into smaller, more
manageable steps. Achievable goals result in the production of new
competencies, attitudes, and solutions.

As an individual, you:

Set, formulate, prioritize, and rank goals

Clearly state our vocational interests, abilities, and values

Derive plans or strategies to implement the solutions

Make a commitment to complete the plans

Understand decision-making processes

Evaluate the primary choice

Consider a secondary occupational choice, if necessary

Decision-making processes include:

Develop a career plan

Identify potential occupations

Select appropriate educational programs

Figure the costs of educational training

Consider the impact of career decisions

Step Four: Execution

You execute your career plans when you use different strategies –

Reality testing

Social Media

Job Search Strategies – Resume Writing and Interview Preparation

Reality Testing

While implementing and, you translate vocational interests, abilities, and
skills into job opportunities. You do reality testing by implementing
the following strategies –

Informational interviewing

Networking

Job shadowing

Internships

Part-time employment

Full-time employment

Volunteer work

We have a variety of different topics that we use different career/ academic advising sessions –